Is it true that Navy men hook up with a lot of gals at international sea ports when they dock there for some time?

This sounds like the plot to a very bad military thriller.

Well after all, they’re just seamen.

@cprevite That was so bad that it was good.

@chyna: my specialty. :^)

Naval personnel tend not to wander off alone in foreign ports for that reason.

I’ll bet the wives of Christopher Columbus’ crew had the same worries.

I held in the giggle until I got to “prisoner/slave”.

When my son was in the Navy, they did meet girls in many of the ports they visited, but they were “encouraged” not to go anywhere private with them. They enjoyed the tourist spots and group dates. When the Navy “encourages” someone, it is similar to forbidding it.

I knew a young sailor once…he was actually quite naive, had never been off the farm basically before he enlisted. When his ship went in to port, he was approached by a few different night-walkers who would come up to him and say “hey sailor…five bucks for a blow job.” He was so naive he didn’t even know what a blow job WAS. So when he got back on the ship he asked his Commanding Officer, “Sir, what’s a blow job?” To which is CO replied, “five bucks, same as in town.”

It’s very true. Of the Navy and the Coast Guard. There’s a reason they all have to be checked for STDs frequently…

you’d be surprised how much servicemen get STD’s…

There are certain ports where that isn’t so much of an issue though. Things are pretty tame in Jebel Ali (Muslim) and Mombasa (HIV rate high enough to scare even the dumbest sailor), but Asia was pretty much a playground.

At least in Singapore, the women were almost as clean as the streets, but Medical department on my first ship was working overtime after Thailand.

@DrasticDreamer, you don’t know what you’re talking about.